11 June 2013

UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge: REFLECTIONS

The University of Western Australia (UWA), the great champion of the arts in Second Life, offers you an opportunity to participate in its current challenge, UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge: REFLECTIONS. As it has many times in the past, UWA issued an open call to artists to develop 3D works of art (150 prims or fewer) for exhibition in its space. The deadline to enter has passed, 64 artists responded with works of art, and now a large international jury will select the winners, all of whom will receive generous prizes: L$100,000 for the highest award with more than L$600,000 to be distributed overall. If you have a good sense of aesthetics or love art, join in by picking your top 10—you'll be entered in the audience participation prizes and could win up to L$7,000 by matching the results of the jury. More information is available on the UWA blog. Kudos to Jayjay Zifanwe and FreeWee Ling for their extraordinary leadership of this and other UWA events.

The list of artists is impressive not only for its sheer number—and the depth and breadth of creativity—but also for its international scope. Some artists are well known and others less so. I'm one of the judges this round, so I'm not going to single anyone out (and don't take my photos here as anything more than a few shapshots of what you'll encounter—no favoritism implied), but I do encourage you to visit and see this extraordinary array of art. The deadline for audience participation ends July 10. Click here for a slurl. And here are the artists and their works: